The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the belated crowd. Leaders in suits and leather boots and heavily armed police surrounded the school. The gradually awakening crowd on the playground began to riot, and the military and police opened the isolation cordon to maintain order on the scene.
.Searchers and rescuers carried various equipment and climbed on the edge of the ravine, looking for survivors.
"The situation is still unclear. We are already doing our best to search and rescue. No one knows whether the ground will subside again. Geological experts are already investigating. Don't worry, we will definitely rescue the last survivor!"
Flashlights and microphones surrounded the mayor beside the police car. He answered various questions tirelessly, and his anxious expression was reflected in the lens of the scope.
"They have taken over the scene and I am ready to retreat now."
Lingjiu reported the surveillance situation and began to recover the equipment. The full moon hung in the night sky, and the girl in a peaked cap carried fishing gear on her back, walked through the neon streets, and approached the milk tea shop in the corner. The enthusiastic shopkeeper fucked
With a strong northern accent, she clumsily promoted her products. Lingjiu wiped the sweat from her forehead and ordered a cup of Hawaiian fresh fruit tea. She walked to the sofa, sunk her body into the sofa, closed her eyes and began to relax.
, the sound of even breathing came through her nasal cavity, blowing the thin blanket that she had covered at some point. Lao Guo quietly put down the fruit tea and paper towels, whispered to his wife to adjust the blanket, and glanced at Lingjiu's peaceful sleep.
Yan, the couple walked back to the bar in small steps. They changed to a quiet playlist. Today's Black Tea's main song is Chopin's "Nocturne".
Three streets away, in a community that had just been renovated a few months ago, residents returned to their rooms one after another, unloaded their large and small bags of equipment, and put them into dark cabinets by category. Holding the remaining items in their arms
After finding the broken parts, the residents came to the big closet in the back room one after another, opened the hidden small elevator, put the damaged reports and scrap parts in the elevator, and sent them to the logistics factory located underground.
On the middle floor of Building 2, Ye Lanxin was sitting on the sofa looking up at the ceiling. On the computer on the coffee table was the accommodation allocation list that had just been sorted out. She closed her eyes, and fatigue surged through her body like waves. However, she
Unable to obey my sleepiness.
""Christmas" (Christmas Rose), report on the progress."
"The claw-shaped pit has been adjusted into a circular sinkhole. With the cooperation of the memory unit, all cult members have been left at the scene, and those who need to enter the prison have been arranged to pretend to be cult leaders to confess and correct themselves.
Traces of superpowers and battles have disguised the cause as a depression in the ground and a mechanical short-circuit explosion. We who are far away have asked superpowers to set fire to it and disguise it as a fire scene. The missing bishop and saint have followed your instructions to forge the
The good bodies were placed at the bottom of the pits and under the rubble."
"Where are the guards?"
"It has been checked and there are no hints in their minds. The memory force has deleted part of their memories. There is a guard who is a little special. We cut off his hand as a sample."
"Be specific." Ye Lanxin raised his eyebrows, recalling possible partners.
"It's a guard who fought with "Wind". One of his hands is full of traces of corrosion by dark elements. We think it has research value."
"Can this guy save me some trouble..."
Ye Lanxin pressed her eyebrows helplessly, looked at the time on the computer screen, and stood up from the sofa.
"In ten minutes, that is, at 7:46, I will come to the underground factory. Please prepare researchers and materials."
"Just the hands?"
"Two 'hands', and the big hand on the ground."
Ye Lanxin hung up the contact with "Christmas" and walked out of the room quickly. When the elevator door closed, the contact from "Red Wind" came in.
"Red Wind reported new progress. We found an old camera a few meters away from the scene and obtained what may be the only live video."
"pass it to me."
Ye Lanxin took out her phone from her pocket, clicked on the software with a red hyacinth-style icon, and opened the video.
"The space was taken away?"
In the video, the entire playground is pitch black. The darkness divides reality like a solid body, and the area is like black paint smearing the screen.
"Based on our analysis, it could be because there is no light."
"Suifeng" also mentioned that vision has been deprived. If we think about it according to the principle of imaging, there is a possibility that there is no light in that area. In other words, the light is swallowed up by darkness, just like a black hole.
"
"The current results are generally the same as your analysis. There is also special information. During this three-minute period, more than one mysterious star observer reported that they felt a strong light appearing deep in the universe.
.”
"One side is dark and the other side is light. How can scientific testing prove it?"
"Scientific testing cannot confirm it, and various instruments have not discovered it."
Ye Lanxin walked out of the elevator door and walked through the steel corridor. The electronic sound of ticking kept coming from the wall beside her. The "lady" simply passed the thirteen tests without any cooperation.
"Archive records, organize the stargazer's descriptions, and integrate and compare them with all the circumstances of the claw marks, accurate to the point in time."
"Yes, please go to the No. 1 infirmary first, where "Feng" is being examined."
"I've seen them."
Ye Lanxin stopped in front of the glass window and adjusted the channel of the earphones to the monitoring channel of the medical room.
"How did you feel about killing someone for the first time?"
"Um?"
The doctor with a slightly bearded Chinese character was writing medical records and asked Lin Shuwen, who was wearing a vest, without any warning.
"No...feeling? I forgot how I killed him."
Lin Shuwen was holding the bed board with both hands, his back facing the glass window.
He looked at the doctor on the right.
"Yeah, all the chicken soup you asked me to prepare was in vain."
The doctor with medium-length hair shook his head with a smile and continued writing in the medical record.
"Speaking of it...I did kill someone..."
Lin Shuwen looked at his right arm, and some images that made him angry emerged in his mind.
"Although I still feel that he deserved his death, I still killed someone..."
The doctor listened quietly to the patient talking to himself and turned the case to the second page.
"Are you recalling the scene where he committed evil?"
The doctor put down his pen, turned to Lin Shuwen, put his right hand on the back of the chair, and crossed his legs.
"But you killed someone. This is an eternal fact."
The doctor touched his chin and looked at the razor in his briefcase.
"I know, but if it happens again, I will only choose to kill him faster. Before he hurts Mei'er."
Lin Shuwen stared at the white floor with no regrets in his eyes.
"I will not ask you to atone for your sins like a virgin bitch, nor will I deny your behavior. There are thousands of reasons for killing, and some even have no reason."
The doctor stood up from the chair, walked to Lin Shuwen's bedside, and patted him on the shoulder.
"No killing is worthy of praise, whether it is for oneself or for others. Except for the killing of a madman, every acceptable killing is, happily, praised by the group of people who are the cause.
Those things that have nothing to do with the murderer himself, those who suffer eternal pain, are the murderers. However, the murderer who can suffer is the murderer who will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, who can be trusted and can be assured."
"What's the meaning?"
"It's just chicken soup. Just listen. Now, if you are willing to only come to me for medical treatment when you are injured in the future, can you agree to my request?"
The doctor held Lin Shuwen's shoulder and looked at him with a familiar smile. Lin Shuwen looked at him and nodded.
"Bring two cups of delicious tea. In this case, I will have time to chat with you alone. If you don't bring tea, I will assume that you don't want to talk about only treating diseases. How about that?"
"Okay, thank you."
"Hahaha, then it's settled. By the way, let me ask you a question, although it is unlikely, are you the second lady's boyfriend?"
"Ah?! Of course not." Lin Shuwen shook his head.
"Then what do you think of her?"
With an old uncle's smile on his face, the doctor asked frantically and glanced at the glass window. Ye Lanxin raised his eyebrows and turned up the volume of his headphones with interest.
"Well... I really hope there is someone she can rely on in the future."
"oh?"
"Ye Lanxin, although she always looks strong, is actually a girl. Having something that you can give your heart to is a very happy thing for people like us who wear masks to survive."
The waning moon covered his shoulders and rubbed the master's cheek. Ye Lanxin, who was outside the window, lowered her head and suddenly yawned, wiping the moisture from the corners of her eyes with her fingers. Taking a breath, she ordered Zhi who was smiling softly at the side.
Zi rushed into the infirmary and informed Lin Shuwen to rush to the No. 2 intensive care unit as soon as possible.
The tapping sound of heels echoed underground again, and Ye Lanxin disappeared at the end of the corridor.
"Miss "Lady"!"
In the nursing room No. 2, Ye Lanxin waved her hands in response to the greetings of her subordinates. In front of them, the slightly haggard saint was holding a slightly cold milk tea and staring at the table absentmindedly. Opposite him, Ye Lanxin and Ye Wenxin sat
In front of various instruments, listen to the confessions of your subordinates about the information they have learned so far.
"You don't have a name?"
"Yes"
The words came without any hint, and the saint calmly responded to Ye Lanxin's questions.
"Then I'll call you Saint for now. Do you have any requirements? Your milk tea won't smoke anymore."
Ye Lanxin fell into a familiar routine and chose to establish a good relationship and impression first.
"Well, I have confessed everything that needs to be said and answered. Just tell me what you need me to do next."
The saint replied in a calm and submissive tone, without any hint of rebellion or personality.
"I want you to join us, but of course, you have no choice."
Ye Lanxin did not hesitate and directly put forward her request. Behind her, Lin Shuwen, wearing a vest, arrived belatedly. Seeing Lin Shuwen's saintly eyes flashed a glimmer of light, and the pair of backlit black wings emerged.
came into her mind, and she suddenly had a request.
"If possible, I would like to ask the boys over there something, please..."
"Put away your power."
Ye Lanxin knocked on the table, and two curves with obviously different waveforms appeared on the screen on one side. Feeling the touch of fingers on his shoulders, Lin Shuwen turned around, and saw a girl in black holding Meier in her arms, quietly
Appeared behind him, the waning moon on his shoulder raised his eyes, thinking doubtfully.
"Thanks"
Lin Shuwen took the tired Mei'er from her arms, stroked her hair, and nodded to the girl. The girl remained silent and disappeared behind him with familiar waves.
"Master, next time you check, I will definitely run!"
"I'll accompany you next time."
Lin Shuwen kissed Meier tenderly on her forehead. Meier's fur gradually warmed up. She rubbed her master's chest and purred happily. The waning moon on her shoulders puffed up her face and returned to Lin Shuwen's memorial platform.
"If you use your ability without permission again, I will treat you as an enemy!"
Ye Lanxin increased the volume of the warning, and the saint gritted her teeth and also increased the volume.
"Then I'll re-propose my
Request, I want to ask Lin Shuwen something."
"Oh? How do you know this name?"
"Well...that's what I said..."
Ye Lanxin looked at her sister who was nodding and hunching aside. The fist of her left hand tightened and loosened. She took a deep breath and signaled Lin Shuwen to come over. Then she turned to Ye Wenxin and squinted her eyes with a smile:
"Come to my room tonight. If you feel sorry for my sister, bring a ruler with you."
"yes……"
During the conversation, Lin Shuwen had already sat opposite the saint. The saint stretched out her hand and nodded Mei'er's head. Seeing Mei'er's laziness, she laughed happily.
"Excuse me, what's the matter?" Lin Shuwen asked first.
"Are you a real angel? But with black wings... could you be a fallen angel?"
"ha?!"
The saint's question shocked everyone in the room. Lin Shuwen put his right hand on the table and put his right index finger between his lips.
"Are you talking about these wings?"
Lowering his hand naturally, Lin Shuwen pressed his mouth against the protruding wrist and unfolded his black wings.
"Yes! This feather... you really are!"
"no."
"well?"
Lin Shuwen put down his arms, looked directly into the saint's eyes, and said in a calm voice:
"I'm not an angel or anything like that, I'm just a somewhat special human being."
"However, you have wings like an angel, and you have saved us people who were bewitched, and you were even seriously injured because you couldn't bear to hurt those mortals. With strength and kindness, you can save our existence with the wings of an angel, isn't it!
"
"No, it is the entire organization that saves you. I have no power, and I can't even protect the things I love most. As a killer, I will be injured because of my kindness. As for the wings you mentioned, they are just a pile of energy.
"
Lin Shuwen dispersed the black wings, and the falling feathers decomposed and dissipated in the eyes of the saint, turning into pure energy and returning to the space.
"If you think that this group of people are just "messengers of God" who came to save you because of "God's will", although it may sound a bit unpleasant, I think you are insulting them."
Lin Shuwen took a breath and spoke his heart to the stunned saint:
"We Chinese people are often said by some foreigners and even some people in our country to be a nation that has no faith and is not saved and blessed by various "gods". When the flood comes, there is no "god" to take care of it, and the land dries up.
, there is no "god" to rain, there are too many people to eat, there is no "god" to take care of..."
Lin Shuwen looked at the Saint with a wry smile, the loneliness in his eyes lasting for five thousand years.
"So we do it by ourselves. When a flood comes, we find a way to cure it. When there is a drought, we dig ditches and divert river water for irrigation. If we don't have enough to eat, we study food with higher yields. There is never any guidance from the gods.
For us, we have always guided ourselves, and this has always been the case from five thousand years ago to today."
Lin Shuwen took off his headphones and placed them between the two of them.
"We follow the instructions of a "lady", collect intelligence, lay traps, solve problems, protect mortals, and clear traces. In this series of processes, there is no name of a "god" on the list of participants. We just
A group of somewhat special human beings with missions and sins, or creatures in nature. The results and phenomena that shock you are all achieved by such a group of sinful, flawed, flesh-and-blood creatures. And
It’s not an abstract concept that can be easily realized with a wave of your hand.”
Lin Shuwen took a breath and added the last few words calmly:
"In our tradition, we believe in "gods from all walks of life." They are either mortals who have achieved enlightenment, or they belong to nature. So from the beginning, what we Chinese people believe in is "self" and "nature". At the same time, we also use human beings to
The body has completed the miracles of the gods. Human power can do it, so why do we need gods?!"
The saint held the milk tea cup tightly, two opposite values colliding in her mind. At this time, Lan Ruxin's voice came from the front.
"Moreover, what you Senming (god) has done has hurt so many believers and mortals. He is only satisfying his own desires, and those believers who should be omnipotent have been deprived of even the right to save each other."
Lan Ruxin put her hand on Lin Shuwen's shoulder and showed a wicked smile. The saint looked at the eldest sister in front of her and recalled the figure who broke through the guards not for the goal, but to save an enemy. That figure broke through the siege
, and washed away the ferocious face. She breathed a sigh of relief, opened her mouth and was about to tell her decision, but was interrupted by Lan Ruxin's words:
"We do not oppose the beliefs of our members or others, but we hope that after seeing the whole process, you will not deny the efforts of us creatures. We are not "angels" or "messengers of God", we are just those mortals who have longed for
It's just a "hero". Although people who want to be heroes are not qualified to be heroes, I think "hero" is more appropriate here, right! Hahahaha!"
The eldest sister's words made people laugh. The saint smiled lightly and looked at Lin Shuwen, put on her earphones, and made one last request:
"Can you please give me two names? One is a human name, and the other is a hero's name."
"The pure lotus born from the filthy heart, the heart lotus. If possible, the name of human beings would be called "heart lotus", and the name of the hero would be called "hymn"!"
"What the hell is that name!!!"
Lan Ruxin patted Lin Shuwen's head and complained at the top of her lungs, but the saint stood up, blushed and walked to Lin Shuwen's side, took off his headphones, and said to Ye Lanxin:
"Human, Xinlian, requests to join the organization."
"Approved, welcome to join Shadow Kill, "Anthem"."